In stead of the giant ant analogy, I'd rather remember the square-cube law, as the thing that keeps my toy trains tilting off the tracks in tight curves, when the same problem is not present in real life rail roads. The weight simply does not scale on the same level as the size in these little trains... :-(

It doesn't. TCP/IP over Avion Carrier has been superseeded by Payload over USB stick, and since that attack vector came into play, 'connected to the internet' is no longer a requirement...

Or perhaps they are helping to make your next windmill more efficient, since their sponsor is probably interested in some of the aspects of their work.
Although most of their recent work probably is more interesting for boat and propeller designers, since much of it was centered about not having the t-foil sword cavitate, to loose speed.

My backup runs on a 4/1 mbit DSL line. It takes forever to back up my photos and home videos, that I have stored on my NAS server.
Also, due to RIAA and Apple braindead rules (which may not apply to you yanks), I need to keep my own backup of all my iTunes music and video content, since I cannot download it again after I've bought it.
And yes, I should get by with incremental downloads, but my offsite backup service likes to take a full backup every week or two. Right now that ties up my upload for hours when it does so. I got 47 gig of totally legal storage to back up over my puny 1Mbit upload.
Also my 5.2gig Dropbox likes to chime in now and again, although it's not that often, that it's a problem.

That's why I need more upload...

Oh well, welcome to my world. In Denmark, not only does the bank require Java. The _state_ require you to use the same braindead java-infested login (NemID), not only on all banks, but also on every public accessible site (Pensions, Healthcare, Unemployment benefits, Student benefits...).
No matter what I do, and which bank I choose, I need to use NemID, and Java.

I just disabled Java on my work machine. Now I need to make a virtual machine or something, if I actually want to pay my bills. :-(

That only shows that they fail at communicating the results. Not that the result itself is bogus...

Didn't they loose their privacy?

Funny. I didn't feel that non-trivial feeling, last time I looked over a new programming language, that the boss just brought in...

Then fix the release gaps, and stop whining. The rest of the world is tired of being reduced to second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth class US citizens...
If you want our money, start treating us like equals, and release the damn movies at the same time everywhere.
With digital releases, it shouldn't be that hard.

But then again.. Who do you know, that uses Gg or Giga Gram, instead of 'Thousand Tons'?

If it's indeed possible to print a complex chip, like memory, how long do I have to wait, before I can print a 'modified' MiFare chip, complete with my preferred Card ID on the back of my 'fake' OysterCard? Wouldn't it be possible to create a MiFare card, with any ID number on it, In stead of emulating one, using the hardware available today?

You don't need to plug it back in, every time you reboot it afterwards, just the one time.

Actually, I think that once you have broken your device, and loaded a custom firmware, it is no longer in a state, where the FCC allows you to connect to the cell networks. It of course depends on the state of the radio piece of the firmware, but you can't do _everything_ you want with it, just because you own the damn thing..

Last I checked the country I live in was largely metric. Water pipes, TV screens and some sizes of lumber is still in inches though. It's kind of a transition fase that was never really completed. Not a real problem here, but I struggle to keep track of short and long tons.. Here a ton equals 1000 kilograms.

I think most of the towers already have sensors, since they need them to detect when to shut down. The collection of data is another matter, but it shouldn't be too hard to do, some guys over here already did it